Improvement in dash-rails for carriages



BQB. NOYES & 0. a; STRATTON.

Dash Rails for Carriages.

Patented Feb. 11

AM mora-umosmrmc c0. uflmwmzfs mam) UNITED STATES I PATENT QFFIO'E BAXTER B. NOYES AND OSCAR G. STRATTON, OF GREENFIELD, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DASH-RAILS FOR CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,834, dated February 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BAXTER BARDWELL blows and OscAR GRANDVILL STRATTON, of

Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Dash -Rails for Carriages, of

rear face, and inserting between theseears the perforated end of the center post or brace, and then passing through these perforations a smooth rod, which is afterward bent to the required form to constitute the rail, as hereinafter more fully explained. I

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the rail an name-plate complete. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the parts, shown detached.

In constructing this improved rail we first form the name-plate O, which, as shown in Fig. 2, is provided on its rear face with two cars or lugs, e, which have holes bored through them parallel with the face of the plate, of such a size to permit the rodA to be passed through them. We then construct the center post or brace B, with its upper end a, as represented in Fig. 2, with a hole through it, also, to receive the rod A, its lower end being flattened and provided with one or more screw-holes for attaching it to the dash in the usual manner. We then provide a rod, A, of the, required size and length to form the rail, as represented in Fig. 2, after which the perforated end n of the center postB is placed between the ears or lugs e of the plate 0 in such a manner as to bring the perforations all in a line, when the rod A is shoved through them, thus securing the plate 0 and post or brace B on the rod A. The ends of the rod A are then bent or curved to the required shape, as shown in Fig. 1. The extreme ends of the rod A are flattened and provided with screw-holes in the usual manner. If this flattening of the ends is done in a press it must be done after the plate and brace are put on, as the ends would be too wide to go through the holes in the ears or the post; but if they be flattened by cutting away a portion of the metal, so as not to make the ends any wider, it may be done before.

The plate and post, being arranged centrally, can be secured in or, if the rail is to be plated after it is constructed and the parts put together, the plat ing will suffice to hold them in place, especial 1y if snugly fitted. Even if not thus secured, when the lower end of the brace B is secured to the dash they will be thereby prevented from moving or getting out of place.

In this way we construct a dash-rail in which being no screwjoints or anything of the kind about it.

We do not claim, in this application, the manner of securing the brace B, the same be ing covered by our patent of July 12, 1870; nor do we claim a dash-rail made in sections, one of which constitutes a name-plate; but,

Having described our improvement, what we do claim is-- The plate 0, provided with the ears, in combination with the rail A and brace B, all constructed and arranged substantially as described.

.BAXTER BARDWELL NOYES.

OSCAR GRANDVILL STRATTON. Witnesses:

AUSTIN DE WOLF, JOHN KEITH.

place by a little solder; I 

